rallee2{at}comcast.net wrote:
> Greetz Gents
>   Since I don't know if this is a hardware issue I'm hoping it's OK to
post this 
> question here.  Besides, you are the only OS/2 guys I know and trust.
>
>   I recently managed a pretty amazing deal on a like-new PIII-S (the
one w/ 512K 
> cache) in a sweet little case and a decent brand mobo (Gigabyte GA-6VEML) which 
> is the all-onboard type that I never buy but the whole PC in a case
with lots of 
> goodies for $75 US seemed just too good to pass up.
>   If you think you need specs here it is:
>
> http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=137
> 8
>
>   It installed both Slackware Linux and Windows XP just fine but I didn't have 
> an MS license and I already have a killer (AMD btw but admittedly an Asus w/ 
> nVidia chipset) Linux box plus I kinda had it in mind when I saw it that I'd 
> like to build a newer dedicated OS/2 box (networked, just not multi-boot).  
> Furthermore since my older one has been hacked and modified so many
times and in 
> so many ways I thought it'd be refreshing to start anew with a clean
install and 
> employ only the mods I actually like and use.  Oh yeah, this is an out of the 
> box Warp 4 installation.
>
>   Anyway everything proceeds fine at first up until the moment where it copies 
> the startup files from CD (and floppies if "set
copyfromfloppy=yes" is employed) 
> and it asks one to remove the diskette and strike "enter" to
restart the 
> workstation and proceed with the main body of the install.  Boot manager comes 
> up but *immediately*, and I do mean immediately!, it beeps and I get a deal 
> breaker error saying "cannot load startup file system.  the
information for the 
> startup file system is incorrect"
>
>   I have lost my old manual that came in the box and it has been so
long since I 
> installed Warp 4 I have forgotten (if I ever knew, come to think of it) what 
> causes this error.  I tried booting to command prompt and using
"tedit" to check 
> out the temporary "config.sys" which seems fine and searched
around to see if 
> "hpfs.ifs" was present and matched the date and size on the
CD (it does).  I assume
> that if the system can read from CD and write to hard drive all is AOK
with drives (though 
> I did have to partition the drive to make the boot drive smaller.  I
chose 930MB.
>
>   If one can take the error msg literally and the problem is truly one
of either mounting or
> reading the HPFS file system I would think perhaps the order in
"config.sys' might be 
> hinky but the install process did it and should be right...right?
>
>   Anyway any thoughts are welcome.
>
>
>
>   
Try using Dani drivers instaed of the old IBM EIDE drivers.

Cheers/2

Ed.


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